MULTUM IN PARVO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 August 1926, Page 11

MULTUM IN PARVO.

After a recent big football, match in Manchester special tramcars for w omen only were run. Among the inmates of the London Zoo aie 716 animals, 1791 birds, 622 reptiles, and 3080 fish. Many of the policemen in the Fast End of London can speak Yiddish, the language of the Ghetto. The use of the wedding ring is first noted in Egypt, where the ring was the emblem of eternity. ■ Fine-edged tools lose their temper if exposed to the light of the sun for a, considerable length of time. It is estimated that there are 20 telephone calls every second of the working day in the London area. The oldest tree in the great Botanic Garden, the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, is an acacia, planted 230 years ago. ■ Insurance companies claim that cycling is> a more dangerous mode of travel than either railways or steamships. The British Museum possessed an iron axe head 1730 8.C., the oldest authenticated iron implement known. For 6500 vacancies in the British Navy there were 48,500 applicants. A spider’s eyes are not- .in liis head, hut in the upper port of the thorax. There are 23,000 species of fishes, one-tenth of which inhabit fresh water. A cow’s hide gives 351 b of leather, while that of a horse yields only about 201 b.